The Trump administration said Friday that it will ban downloads of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and the U.S. use of China’s popular messaging and electronic payment app WeChat after Sunday night over national security and data privacy concerns.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Fox Business News that his office will order a full ban for TikTok by Nov. 12 but noted thatthat would incorporate data safeguards could enable U.S. users continued access of TikTok.
Banning the 'Download ⬇️' of WeChat doesn't mean anything. You need to learn how to deal with Chinese 🇨🇳 & China 🇨🇳 . They have never respected anything and will surely use apk for manual WeChat install ➡️ need to ban WeChat from US Network
The rest of the world should be cautious NSA and CIA are monitoring our apps from US too? 😜
I know how crazy and dangerous WeChat is so that I quit it in 2019. banWeChatCanada ? Countries banned WeChat: 1. September 2020: USA 2. June 2020: India 3. May 2017: Russia (lifted later) 4. September 2013: Iran (unblocked it in 2018)
I'm an accountant who used WeChat to do business in China. Wechat is doubtful to occupy abnormal storage compared with WhatsApp、Skype and monopoly payment.Because of monopoly, credit card is disabled to pay utility bill. It's right to ban WeChat junk. Never use junk TikTok
Nice! Bye TikTok and WeChat! I surely won’t miss you! Between dancing videos & China infiltration, I’m defo saying NO to CCP. We can easily find another platform to dance!
The only people who care about tiktoc are children who use it as a pseudo mating ritual device & for 'cool points flex', as well as by Chinese Communist party to look at search histories, copy/paste history, geo data etc. There is effectively 0 comparrison to a messaging app etc.
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Trump Retaliation for all things China. Flexing muscle of United States for his own little petty grievances. After All XI did advise Mr knownotathing Trump Of Virus. He accused WHO of treating China with Preference BUT It was Trump that complimented Xi on doing a very good job.
Under Beijing's National Intelligence Law all Chinese enterprises are mandatory to cooperate in China's spying activities. For this reason alone, they deserve to be banned. The ban may seem insane, but it's merely a counter measure to an outrageous law from an Orwellian regime!
Hope_LiesIn_Ppl It should be done long time ago.
CCP loves you
When Chinese companies are banned in US, its not acceptable. When US companies are banned in China, wait what. They are even allowed to enter Chinese market. Lol. That is so fair.
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trump doesn’t care about tiktok. he only cares about reelection.
Shut down this crap
Can we ban RussianOwnedPoliticians
why not zoom, bone spurs doesn't want too big a fight
Gd to hear that, although many may think tiktok n wechat r only interesting platform to post fun video n chat, but indeed they also contain problem of leaking personal information to CCP, n that's a lot above fun. So it may take inconvenience in short term but gd for long term.
DananaMama Good!!!
JonErlichman whats concerning is. There are tons of wechat hidden Groups , immigrated China nationals to NA are snapping up & trading high power tactical guns and ammo. Not excluding financial ability to bypass the TT$ transfer I highlighted you before. Tiktok's only the icing
ByteDance is not willing to release the source codes of Tiktok & the latter has to comply with CCP laws. This notorious app should not be trusted. For WeChat, it is a communication app widely in CCP espionage on America soil. tiktokban & WeChatban are absolute right move.
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This is about protecting Silicon Valley and the US’s leadership in technology
WeChat is a great app. The real logic of this government is 'if I can not do better than you, I will ban you. '
We should also ban iPhones given the FBI always trying to hack them.
please ban all apps from China, like what India did.
Great, but they should have been banned long time ago, tit for tat because China banned US apps (facebook/google) in China.
Trump is BAD4BUSINESS
5g Huwaei and now tick tok , Chinese communist invasion has to be stopped !
like Facebook, Google, Twitter et al don't already violate privacy
What national security and data privacy concerns? What are they?
extremely relevant actions from a government with literally no other problems to care about. Definitively, Trump is a very focused and rational leader. Congrats to all Americans and happy re-election of this wonderful and wise leader!
The battlelines of the future are drawn in ideology and technology. Today we are blocking and banning, tomorrow there will be negotiated norms, standards, and eventually coalitions like NATO for data.
Thanks Trump doing the right thing, protecting the personal information leaks from those CCPChina Apps.
Breaking: I'm done with Trump.
EO for banning APP? No for covid testing? The guy can't priority tasks as president. MAKE AMERICA SUCK MORE
'Privacy concerns' LOOOOOOOOOOLL
Interesting...Tik Tok rapidly rising FB competitor. FB under FTC investigation for unfair trade practices (buying competition), can't buy out TT. Zuck meets with Trump, after which Trump labels TT national security risk. Things that make ya' go 'Hmmmm.'
But, but, if they band WeChat, how will Jared make his back door deals?
❶U.S. to ban TikTok downloads & WeChat use after Sunday over national security & data privacy concerns🔴 ❷Messaging apps among 118 India already banned🔴 ❸CyberSecurity reasons🔴SocialMedia Security
Boycott chinese products..
Pretty sure mostly cause tik tok users brought tickets to one of his rallies to stop trump supporters attending 😂
The US: Our citizen's data should only be harvested by *our* corporations. 🙃
I thought cancel culture was a leftist thing.
But no action on COVID in January.... What a joke!
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCKTHECCP
中国可以考虑禁止苹果和微软了。
Privacy concerns? Do they mean Amazon?
美狗也好意思用国家安全这个幌子啊，真是讽刺
Sooooo... VPN?
What would jared do without the What's App? How will he sell out America to the Saudis?
He got my vote.
'Over data privacy concerns'. Well, time to ban Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, the CIA, and 1,000s of others things if they actually cared about data privacy.
Journalists, you can say this is politically motivated and has nothing to do with privacy concerns nor national security. If so, Facebook would’ve been banned a while ago.
Can he please do something useful with his job position? He’s being petty about blocking TikTok because he’s upset that kids made fun of him on it? Grow a pair and deal with more important issues Trump.
Trumps ego is still bruised from Gen-Z so they are banning things. Acting faster with social media BS, like when Twitter fact checked him, then they did when it came to the deadly virus killing almost 200,000 Americans.
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The actual reason is teenagers all over the country spoofed Trump’s Tulsa rally with an organized campaign on Tik Tok.
Racist BS.
I am a Chinese person working in the US and I feel US is prosecuting us. There are more than you know.
This will literally increase downloads for the app lol
America turning into North Korea. With the help of wsj and republicans What’s next? Ban cable news? Ban independent voters? Ban women? Ban kids? Ban speech? Ban freedom? TikTok
VaughnK_ Bullshit, Donny is mad they messed with his rally and is exacting revenge. No more no less.
WSJ, We are in a fight with a Pandemic that has reaped HAVOC in our nation and this is the Best the President can do... how pathetic... Ok... go fetch the ball... as “Side Show Don” strikes again...
national security and data privacy concerns? don't they mean facebook
I blame TeddiMellencamp
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Will the people who already have it downloaded on their phones have it deleted? Or will it just stop more people from downloading it?
1st Amendment rights of Americans trampled too
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WeChat is also a RISK. Why don't they know that Zhang Xiaolong, also known as Allen Zhang, is a Chinese computer programmer and technology executive. He is known for leading the developments of WeChat and Foxmail.
This from a government that has Kushner, a man that can't pass a security clearance, running forign policies and back door deals. NepotismIsTreason
Ooops. ORACLE's Ellison didn't come up with a big-enough cut for his buddy, Trump....
But WhatsApp is fine because Kushner and the Saudis...
What is free market? The market defined by America is free market.
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So what? You just change the region within the App-Store then. Problem solved.
Could we get an explanation of what that means for existing users? Will it disappear from iPhones that downloaded it from the App Store or other phones/systems?
It’s such a concern that we will give everyone 60 hours to continue to download
boom!
It’s actually Nov. 12th for TikTok.
Bullshit. It’s because it’s an effective tool to spread the truth about Trump. He’s banning free speech.
New 1776Commission is established to combat CriticalRaceTheory and other communist MLK teachings. In order to fight anti American brain washing, all schools are now ordered to play Birth of a Nation during all first period home room classes. MAGA God bless true patriots!
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Let's appreciate India for kicking out tik tok from our lives 🤣👍🏻
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